The £150,000 desk that dreams it's a Bugatti

Inspired by the Bugatti Type 35 racer and equipped with a set of its blueprints, Midlands furniture-maker Luzzo Bespoke spent 3,000 hours designing this desk

To raise its height, you turn the 'starter crank', which drives a mechanism scaled up from old Winfield carburettor synchronisation quadrants. The drawer fronts use the same honeycomb grille as the Bugatti, and the aluminium undersides are based on the car's oil sump, which is finned to aid cooling

The men who designed and built the Bugatti Type 35 racer of the Twenties approached their work with enthusiasm and panache.

Chaps who design desks aren’t necessarily known for that. But what if you made a desk the way Bugatti made the car?

The Bugatti Type 35 goes for about £250,000; the desk costs £150,000

Inspired by the Type 35 and equipped with a set of its blueprints, Midlands furniture-maker Luzzo Bespoke spent 3,000 hours designing, machining, joining, riveting and polishing sheet aluminium into a workstation worth nearly as much as the car itself: a Type 35 goes for about £250,000; the desk costs £150,000.

Just ten desks will be made in this style, and each comes with its own log book.

Tan leather finish (left); each desk is numbered, and the builders credited (centre); and drawers are locked with an 'ignition key' (right)

The racing-blue finish is actually seven layers of paint and lacquer and the tan leather writing area is based on a shade used in the car.

Oh yes, and the iMac slides out of sight at the touch of a button.

The Type 35 didn’t have one of those.

luzzobespoke.com

The men who designed and built the Bugatti Type 35 racer of the Twenties approached their work with enthusiasm and panache